Monday, January 21, 2008

Are you a wine lover? Here’s good news for you. Study shows that drinking wines either red wine or white wine poses some health benefits. But red wines gets the better verdict because of its higher contents of antioxidant from healing power of resveratrol contains in red grape skins. However, there were news that winemaker world wide are altering the production process of white wine to increase its health benefits.

Lower risk of stroke (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2001)

Lower risk of heart attack for men with high blood pressure (Worcester Medical Center in Massachusetts, 2004)

Most of these studies promote drinking in moderation. Drinking in moderation is the key to obtain the health benefits of wine drinking. Too much wine per day or per week lead to negative effects, that increases your chance of contacting a life threatening illness. Therefore, the amount of wine you drink matters tremendously. So, how much is considered safe and effective? It is recommended that men take no more than 2 drinks per day and women take no more than 1 drink per day.

Frankly to say, both my hubby nor I are wine drinker, so drinking the wine purely could be too strong to us. That's y we come out this idea. Anyway, the resberries wine taste sweet, hence we find it suitable to mix in ice-cream. But I think even the normal grape wine can be a good try? :)